what do you keep on board in case of emergencies?

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chubby

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I was trying to clear our lockers of accumulated stuff but most of it is "just in case", not proper emergency gear like EPIRBS and flares but....

Food, in case storm bound, enough compo rations from daughters last cadet camp, date expired 2004 to feed a platoon on MOD fruit cake and balti meals

first aid kit, enough to start a field hospital again much date expired

better tool kit than at home

enough odd bits of wire and hose to replumb and wire the boat

a horrible old nylon sleeping bag, in case we fish someone wet out of the water and need to wrap them up, would double as a body bag

spare clothes: an XXXXL track suit from when I didnt go to the gym, again for wrapping up people

books, in case storm bound, the Master and Commander series and the Perfect Storm would be suitable reading.

assorted CDs

pesto sauce in case we are forced to cook from scratch on the boat !

water container in case storm bound away from a marina hose and ditto diesel containers

in case really seriously storm bound, the IOW bus timetable 2008 and the leaflets for the Guernsey tomato experience and Poole and Weymouth shopping outlets, ferry timetables to get back home!

anything else I should keep on board?

most of it never gets used, if storm bound we are usually in reach of a pub!!!!!
 
1. Needle and thread stuff.

2.Tame shipwright in the cockpit locker

3. Starting handle

4. More gin for after you have used No 3 succesfully

5. Duct tape, Stickiflex to repair stuff and muffle tame shipwright
 
Just about everything covered, but make sure you have some Fray B in the emergency rations.

Oh and strong painkillers in the first aid kit. I had excrutiating tooth ache on board last year. It was really difficult to find a dentist to treat me. All NHS Direct could do was to advise me against taking so many painkillers. I was a bit tetchy when I said I could, if only they could find me a dentist. Oh and they wanted my post code. They couldn't seem able to grasp the point that we were at sea on a boat!
 
I keep a few glow sticks in a locker in case I get invited to a rave by the boat next door.
I also keep some emergency fishing tackle in case I get lost in the Fareham channel for a couple of weeks and have to resort to catching seagulls for sustenance with the last of my corned beef.
 
The other halves of all sorts of fittings that came in pairs when bought to replace broken bits and only one was needed.
 
assorted shackles
chunks of wood
Gloves, several types
spare hats
Reading Glasses
a selection of books & magazines
Rice, pasta & spagheti plus biscuits, crisps & crackers
Cubed sugar (no-one on board actually takes sugar - it's for visitors)
Kitchen roll & bog roll
BOAC manual lifejackets (these must be 20years old)
Odd bits of poly-prop lorry ropes
Several retired climbing ropes
Charcoal & tool set for the Barbie
Numerous beach balls, buckets, spades, nets & inflatable toys (mostly rescued at sea)
Fishing lines & mackerel traces plus loads of weights, paternosters & rusty hooks
Out of date flares
spares for engine I no longer have
Rum, Whisky, Gin & Brandy plus some wines & beers
Ginger ale left by Old Salt on first N Wales meet
Ladyline (remember them?) RDF beacon detector
wind up torches
Phone chargers for phones I no longer have
Old clothing for scraping & antifouling duties
lots of half empty cans of oil, a/foul & paint & buggered brushes
A week's supply of tinned food - various
A garden hoe for barnacle scraping should it be needed
a length of pine window sill for G'children to walk the plank off
a short ladder for when beached
Wellies, slippers & deck shoes, various styles & sizes
2, no 3 pairs of binoculars & 3 hand bearing compasses

Oh, I give up, there must be another truck load of stuff I can't remember. No wonder she sits a bit low on her marks.
 
Can't believe I didn't mention string.

If it can be fixed with string, I'm yer man.

String short, medium and as long as you like, new, worn in and terminally worn out.

Impressed that someone mentioned slippers though- Might as well be comfortable in an emergency.
 
Blueboatman said:
Can't believe I didn't mention string.

If it can be fixed with string, I'm yer man.

String short, medium and as long as you like, new, worn in and terminally worn out.
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On the PBO forum, you could rig up a 3 x 3 matrix of labeled hooks and easily find, at a glance:

short(new) short(worn) short(worn out)
medium(new) medium(worn) medium(worn out)
long(new) long(worn) long(worn out)

Maybe a small box labelled "misc sizes(really worn out, not worth keeping)" too?

A bit like my collection of "nuts and bolts(metric)(too rusty to be useful)" and "nuts and bolts(imperial)(too rusty to be useful)" in the garage ;-)
 
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